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Sep 5

ICOM is offering a Special Grants round in response to the war in #Ukraine and its impacts on neighbouring countries. Open to countries which are supporting, or wanting to support, Ukrainian #museums and #museumprofessionals. 🕒Deadline: 14 Oct Apply 👉ecs.page.link/CNC8N

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UMAC AWARD 2022: THE WINNER

After years of outcry, institutions like the Harvard Art Museums

@harvartmuseums

and London's Victoria & Albert Museum

@V_and_A

refuse to remove associations with the Sackler family I

@observer

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CONGRATULATIONS! The 2022 UMAC Award was won by the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, for their project: Time Travel・Hong Kong. The Award was accepted by Josh Yiu, Director of the Art Museum, at an online live ceremony held on 18 September.

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Live streaming of the official announcement of the winner of the UMAC Award 2022.Shortlist:The Chinese University of Hong Kong, ChinaArt MuseumPROJECT Digita...

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From crumbling rock art to exposed ancestral remains, #ClimateChange is ravaging precious Indigenous #heritage. These examples of loss are just the beginning, unless we act. I

@ConversationUS

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📯Les #musées à l’heure du féminisme: de plus en plus d’établissements culturels adoptent de nouvelles pratiques afin d’améliorer la représentation des femmes I

@JDAofficiel

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🇧🇪Brussels launches pilot to prescribe free #museum visits for patients: “The project has a double objective: to promote access to culture for a vulnerable public & to have an additional tool in the context of therapeutic monitoring” I

@TravelTomorrowX

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As New York #museums acknowledge Nazi-#looted artwork, possible disagreement is raised I

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SESIÓN DE PREGUNTAS Y RESPUESTAS sobre las subvenciones especiales del ICOM ICOM

Apoyo a #Museums y Profesionales de Museos en/desde #Ukraine 20 de septiembre de 2022, 14:00- 15:00 (CET) Para participar regístrese: ecs.page.link/X7zFV

🇳🇿Tūhura Otago Museum

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will return six Warumungu objects to their traditional owners in the Northern Territory more than a century after they were first taken I

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🇩🇪Berlin #museum approaches ethnological collection in new ways

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@washingtonpost

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King Charles plans to turn the Queen's beloved Balmoral into a #museum I

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Museums should ensure that the information they present in displays and exhibitions is well-founded, accurate and gives appropriate consideration to represented groups or beliefs. #ICOMCodeofEthics 📘

⏰ Reminder to join our Q&A SESSION on ICOM Special Grants Support to #Museums and Museum Professionals in/from #Ukraine 🗓️20 septembre 2022, 14:00- 15:00 (CET) Register 👉ecs.page.link/X7zFV

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20 septembre 2022, 14:00- 15:00 (CET) To participate, please fill in the form below. Registration form (EN, FR, ES)

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🎨Un nouveau #musée impressionniste voit le jour dans l'ancienne demeure de #Monet à Argenteuil, près de Paris I

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Sep 18

🇪🇺Europe’s 10 coolest neighbourhoods for #heritage lovers I

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ICOM VOICES: The Value of Digital Conversations in 2020

Sep 17

🔊#ICOMVoices "The Value of Digital Conversations in 2020" by Bernadine Bröcker Wieder. How can informal conversations with other museums and external stakeholders help in deciding what to do with future exhibition programmes? 📖

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In May/June 2020, Vastari carried out a survey on the post-pandemic uncertainty regarding exhibitions. 50 museum leaders indicated that informal conversations were the most helpful contributors when...

Sep 17

Interaction with the constituent community and promotion of their heritage is an integral part of the educational role of the museum. #ICOMCodeofEthics 📘

🇺🇿Uzbekistan’s looted museums and forged artifacts: as new Uzbekistan aims to attract more tourists, local #museums are finally receiving long-due attention, including in regard to #stolen artifacts I

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#Looted coin worth $1m returned to 🇮🇱Israel after years-long hunt: "a cherished piece of history [is] finally going home" I

@BBCWorld

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Basel #museums to review origins of art collections to identify the rightful owners of cultural assets I

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📊La fréquentation des sites patrimoniaux repart à la hausse en 2021: les #musées nationaux enregistrent 11,7 millions de visiteurs en 2021, soit une fréquentation en hausse de 23 % par rapport à 2020 I

@MinistereCC

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It's #FollowFriday, get to know our partners!

@INTERPOL_HQ

is the world's international police organization, and cooperates with ICOM on the fight against the #illicittraffic of cultural goods.

Colonisation and Slavery: For a Necessary and Rightful Place in Heritage and Museums

🔈#ICOMVoices "Colonisation and Slavery: For a Necessary and Rightful Place in Heritage and Museums" by André Delpuech, director of

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. Archaeology can play a major role in favouring a more diverse and inclusive view of Heritage and memory. 👐

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The field of archaeology can create places of memory that hold identity: less spectacular traces of the past left in the ground by enslaved communities.

How Cambodia’s statues ended up in the world’s biggest #museums? After decades of war, many of its historical treasures had been #looted. Now the country wants them back. I

@Bloomberg

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💬"Whether this new push to undo #colonial narratives will bring about significant change in #museums remains to be seen. What is certain is that to be effective, this change must go beyond the concessional and rhetorical." I

@ConversationUS

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#Climate activists gluing themselves to masterpieces are honouring art's longstanding reverence of #nature—and they deserve our support I

@TheArtNewspaper

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New #ICOMVoices:💡"The ‘emotional turn’ in museum practice" All museums engender #emotions: what is represented.. may influence what visitors will know, think, remember and do – as a consequence of how they felt while experiencing it. Read more 👉 ecs.page.link/MKpZR

When will #museums tell the whole truth about their #antiquities? Some US museums will overlook the dubious origins of acquisitions if it suits their purposes I

@hyperallergic

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The ancient city of #Hatra in northern Iraq🇮🇶 have welcomed back visitors five years after the defeat of Islamic State, which used it as a training base for two years and left it seriously damaged I

@thetimes

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The University of Iowa’s Stanley Museum

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reopens to the public after 14 years I

@artnews

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📍Le 23 septembre prochain aura lieu la journée professionnelle d'

@ICOM_France

au musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac

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et en ligne !👇

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Inscrivez-vous à la Journée professionnelle @ICOM_France sur le thème "À qui appartiennent les collections ?" ! Rendez-vous le 23 septembre de 9h30 à 17h30 au @quaibranly : eventbrite.fr/e/billets-a-qu

Museums have an important duty to develop their educational role and attract wider audiences from the community, locality, or group they serve. #ICOMCodeofEthics 📘

International Council of Museums - Sustainability Management in Museums: A new Approach

#ICOMVoices 🔈 "Sustainability Management in Museums: A new Approach" by Dr. Christopher Garthe. A possible approach to #sustainability management in museums 💡🌳 📖

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ICOM has committed the entire community to implementing the objectives of Agenda 2030. But how can these global objectives be translated?

Why government needs to undertake nationwide survey of #antiques and soon-to-be antiques in 🇮🇳India I

@EconomicTimes

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Les directeurs de #musées italiens🇮🇹 face au manque de personnel I

@JDAofficiel

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Report shows near-total erasure of 🇦🇲Armenian #heritage sites

@CaucasusHW

@CornellNews

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How to become an inclusive #heritage institute? 3️⃣toolkits from #restitution to gender #inclusivity to guide you I

@HeritageTribune

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Victoria & Albert Museum

@V_and_A

in discussions to return a collection of Asante gold #artifacts that were looted during a British military raid of the city of Kumasi in 1874 to 🇬🇭Ghana I

@artnews

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